Re: Inline::Spew coming your way

[Ken Williams]

On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 04:02  PM, Brian Ingerson wrote:

On 31/10/02 13:41 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

I'm just now drafting and testing Inline::Spew.  Usage:

use Inline Spew => <<'END';
START: "The " noun " " verb "."
noun: "dog" | "cat" | "rat"
verb: "runs" | "sits" | smiles"
END

OK. Let's make this a little more general. And why isn't this YAML??

Probably because YAML isn't the standard way to express generative context-free grammars, but Backus-Naur Form is - that's why things like Parse::RecDescent use it (or variants of it). Moving it to YAML probably makes it less general, not more.

-Ken